TY - JOUR

T1 - ДВА КОРОТКИХ ТЕКСТА О СОТВОРЕНИИ МИРА У МОИСЕЯ МАЙМОНИДА И МАЙСТЕРА ЭКХАРТА: СОПОСТАВЛЕНИЕ ПОДХОДОВ К ФИЛОСОФСКОЙ ГЕРМЕНЕВТИКЕ БИБЛЕЙСКОГО МИФА

AU - Fedchuk, D.

N1 - Export Date: 05 February 2026; Cited By: 0; Correspondence Address: D. Fedchuk; Herzen University, St. Petersburg State University, Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; email: fedchukd@list.ru

PY - 2025

Y1 - 2025

N2 - The article compares the interpretations of two medieaval philosophers, i.e. Moses Maimonides and Meister Eckhart, on the first verse of the book of Genesis: “In the beginning God created heaven and earth”. An attempt is made to understand to what extent Maimonides’ point of view influenced Eckhart. Maimonides claiming a philosophical justification for the creation of the world ex nihilo actually justifies with the help of reason not the logical and philosophical consistency and persuasiveness of the concept of creation, but the philosophical certainty of the biblical story of creation. However, Meister Eckhart offers a variant of philosophical exegesis based to a much greater extent on logical argumentation. He is not afraid to recognise the numerical multiplicity of things in the universe which at the same time is one in its various parts since the Creator is one. The analysis shows that monotheism has a theoretical core common to Judaism and Christianity, but the variants of its understanding arising as a result of the hermeneutics of the text fundamentally separate the mediaeval philosophy of Judaism and Western Christian scholasticism from each other. © Федчук Д. А., 2025.

AB - The article compares the interpretations of two medieaval philosophers, i.e. Moses Maimonides and Meister Eckhart, on the first verse of the book of Genesis: “In the beginning God created heaven and earth”. An attempt is made to understand to what extent Maimonides’ point of view influenced Eckhart. Maimonides claiming a philosophical justification for the creation of the world ex nihilo actually justifies with the help of reason not the logical and philosophical consistency and persuasiveness of the concept of creation, but the philosophical certainty of the biblical story of creation. However, Meister Eckhart offers a variant of philosophical exegesis based to a much greater extent on logical argumentation. He is not afraid to recognise the numerical multiplicity of things in the universe which at the same time is one in its various parts since the Creator is one. The analysis shows that monotheism has a theoretical core common to Judaism and Christianity, but the variants of its understanding arising as a result of the hermeneutics of the text fundamentally separate the mediaeval philosophy of Judaism and Western Christian scholasticism from each other. © Федчук Д. А., 2025.

KW - creation

KW - God

KW - Judaism

KW - logos

KW - Meister Eckhart

KW - Moses Maimonides

KW - natural theology

KW - scholasticism

U2 - 10.15382/sturI2025117.29-44

DO - 10.15382/sturI2025117.29-44

M3 - статья

SP - 29

EP - 44

JO - ВЕСТНИК ПРАВОСЛАВНОГО СВЯТО-ТИХОНОВСКОГО ГУМАНИТАРНОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. СЕРИЯ 1: БОГОСЛОВИЕ. ФИЛОСОФИЯ. РЕЛИГИОВЕДЕНИЕ

JF - ВЕСТНИК ПРАВОСЛАВНОГО СВЯТО-ТИХОНОВСКОГО ГУМАНИТАРНОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. СЕРИЯ 1: БОГОСЛОВИЕ. ФИЛОСОФИЯ. РЕЛИГИОВЕДЕНИЕ

SN - 1991-640X

IS - 117

ER -